You find people who might be interested in your product or service and you promote your product and service to them in hopes of getting more customers and sales.

Simple.

Usually this requires an understanding of search engine optimization, advertising, A/B testing, the customer acquisition funnel, and much more.

How much can you make with it?

There are websites that are making a ton of money purely through affiliate/internet marketing.

However, for every website that’s making a ton, there are 99 websites that were started, but never actually made anything.

It’s quite sad really.

It takes a lot of persistence to succeed in the business and you have to be prepared to fail, fail, and fail again until you finally find a profitable campaign.

You have to be willing to learn a ton of things, to constantly test different landing pages, campaigns, promotion methods, and more, and you have to know that even if you do everything right you still might not succeed because there is a certain element of luck involved.

Fun, right?

Here are a couple bloggers that are killing it through affiliate marketing.

Keep in mind that there are more people who are making money, but who don’t have a guru blog, and that there are even more people who tried to make money online, but completely and totally failed.